Hi, I need to get the text output from Dragon Naturally Speaking (9.10) into a running Perl script. I can do a hash lookup to see if the current word is one of a few dozen commands or if it is just raw data.

I tried opening STDIN and reading it, but nothing is there and the words just show up on my dumb dos window.

Is there another way to do this? I can send the text to OpenOffice Writer and set the autosave to a 1 minute interval and poll the file, but that would be like trying to engage in an intelligent conversation with Homer (or Jessica) Simpson.